Hi, I'm Kent C. Dodds. I help people make the world better through quality software.

The two users your UI code has are 1) The end user that's interacting with your component and 2) the developer rendering your component. Imagine you have the following UI (taken from my… Read →

Skipping to the end Here's the secret to this blog post in one short code example: That's it. Most apps which require authentication of any kind can be drastically simplified by that one… Read →

NOTE: I want to add that the times it's important to optimize your context value is when a certain combination of the following conditions are met: Your context value changes frequently Your… Read →

In Application State Management with React , I talk about how using a mix of local state and React Context can help you manage state well in any React application. I showed some examples… Read →

Managing state is arguably the hardest part of any application. It's why there are so many state management libraries available and more coming around every day (and even some built on top… Read →